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Director:
Iain B. MacDonald
Writer:
Maggie Wadey (written by)
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Release Date:
27 January 2008 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
At age 10, Fanny Price is sent by her destitute mother to live with her aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
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Did they even read the book? more (42 total)

Cast

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Additional Details

Runtime:
120 min (including commercials) | Finland:88 min (excluding commercials)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
Finland:K-3

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The white muslin dress with yellow overdress Michelle Ryan wears during the scene in which Sir Thomas asks Maria if she wants to marry Mr. Rushworth is the same gown Kate Winslet wears as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995) during the picnic scene, and a farmhouse servant wears in Eroica (2003) (TV). more
Movie Connections:
Version of Mansfield Park (1999) more
Soundtrack:
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37 out of 43 people found the following comment useful.
Did they even read the book?, 12 October 2007
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Author: firechild_ from Canada

I doubt whoever wrote this screenplay has ever actually read Mansfield Park...or if they have it was not very well. None of the characters are what they should be: Fanny is lively and conscious of her mistreatment, while Sir Thomas, who treated her very well, seems to have accidentally fallen into Aunt Norris' personality. Additionally, a first person narrative by Fanny is highly inappropriate to both the story and her character. Fanny is not an entertaining heroine, and I would contend that she is not meant to be. Additionally, in the movie version, Fanny flirts shamelessly with Edmund from the very beginning, when they have been raised as brother and sister! Austen's Fanny would have shrank from flirtation of any sort, and the novel paints the Fanny/Edmund pairing as highly uncomfortable...as it should be. Unlike some other Jane Austen novels (P&P, Emma), Mansfield Park does not rest on the strength of its female protagonist. It is a very different sort of novel than the others; it is not meant to be a love story. I watched this movie because I have just now finished reading Mansfield Park, and I am absolutely horrified by what I see; Miss Austen is rolling in her grave.

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